by Editorial Staff | Oct 25, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Official Reports, Think Tanks, Training & Exercises, UAVs, USA
US Budget Negotiations to Restart * Congressional leaders are signaling a more realistic stance as they’re about to restart budget negotiations next week. They are shrugging off any sort of ambitious “grand bargain” deal, and may instead be content...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 24, 2013 | Blimps & LTA Craft, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Industry & Trends, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, T&C - SAIC, Textron, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
LEMV concept(click to view full) The rise of modern terrorism, sharply increasing costs to recruit and equip professional soldiers, and issues of energy security, are forcing 2 imperatives on modern armies. Modern militaries need to be able to watch wide areas for...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 24, 2013 | Asia - Other, Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, General Dynamics, Germany, India, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, Pre-RFP, Raytheon, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea, UAVs, USA
Primes Under Booking Pressure * General Dynamics’ Q3 revenue was down by 1.7% to $7.8B. Information systems sales break from the trend with a 4.4% increase, but even combined with healthy aerospace gains, they can’t quite compensate for Combat Systems...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 23, 2013 | Corporate Innovations, Field Innovations, Logistics, Logistics Innovations
Ex Lab(click to view full) What do a fresh look at what “logistics” means, the ongoing electronics revolution, new manufacturing techniques, and the social norms and movements arising from these trends, have in common? Within the US Army, the answer is the...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 23, 2013 | Asia - Central, Corporate Innovations, Logistics, Other Corporation, Russia, Turkey, USA, Warfare - Lessons
M-ATVs, hauling out(click to view full) The US Army’s Retrograde, Reset, Redeployment, Redistribution, and Disposal (R4D or “Afghan retrograde”) is a huge effort, moving an estimated $17 billion of good out of country at a cost of around $6 billion....
